The Bishop of the United House of Prayer for All People, a denomination which stripped its national evangelist of his credentials after he developed prostate cancer, continues to welcome a leading contributor who stole more than $5 million and donated a part of the stolen money to the church, The United House of Prayer is […]
Lawyers for a pregnant Sudanese woman plan to appeal an Islamic judge’s decision that she be flogged with 100 lashes and then be hanged for marrying a Christian man and converting. Amnesty International and Western embassies are expressing alarm over the harsh sentence meted out to Meriam Yehya Ibrahim Ishag, who is eight months pregnant. […]
The leader of Boko Haram, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) fighting for the establishment of a separate Islamic state in Northeast Nigeria to be ruled by Sharia law, said in a video released to Sahara Reporters, “it is either you are with us Mujahedeen or you are with the Christians.” Shekau pledged war against […]
D.C. officials plan to move about 100 homeless women out of a troubled women’s shelter and into a “cleaned up” former morgue, the Washington Post reports. The women would be moved out of the Harriet Tubman Emergency Women’s Shelter, which is at the site of the former D.C. General Hospital. Harriet Tubman is known for […]
A 10-year-old girl says she was attacked at Edgemere Elementary by two students in a bathroom. The child’s mother says she was waiting in the pickup line for her daughter after school when her 10-year-old daughter came running towards her crying and shaking. The mother was mortified when the child told her what had […]
WJLA reports that the Metropolitan Police Department announced on Monday that it will be deploying 15 new photo-enforcing cameras — 14 for speed, and one for oversize vehicles. This stretch of Monroe Street in Northeast D.C. is a favorite cut-through route for the big-wheelers, even though they are supposed to steer clear in this neighborhood […]
Burger King scrapped its 40-year-old “Have It Your Way” slogan in favor of the more personal “Be Your Way.” The new tag line rolled across its marketing in the U.S. in a TV ad that began airing Monday night. The line made its first appearance in an online video last month. Burger King says in […]
The King of Pop slayed them at the Billboard Music Awards Sunday night. Michael Jackson was resurrected from the dead in hologram form, singing and doing his famous moonwalk in front of a star-studded Las Vegas audience. Jackson performed his new hit “Slave to the Rhythm” off his posthumous album “Xscape” — which debuted last […]
AT&T Inc. on Sunday agreed to buy DirecTV for $48.5 billion, or $95 per share, a move that gives telecommunications company a larger base of video subscribers and increases its ability to compete against Comcast and Time Warner Cable, which agreed to a merger in February. AT&T’s proposed combination, which is subject to government review, […]
A megachurch pastor confessed to covering up sexual abuse claims during this week’s trial of a youth leader accused of molesting several boys. Nathaniel Morales, 56, was convicted Thursday of sexually abusing three young boys between 1983 and 1991. Covenant Life Church former pastor Grant Layman admitted on Tuesday while testifying about allegations against Nathaniel Morales […]
The Prince of Darkness won’t see the light of day in Oklahoma, if lawmakers have their way. A satanic group commissioned a statue of the devil, raising money to pay a sculptor who it won’t identify, as a way of protesting the Sooner State’s placement of a Ten Commandments monument on the Statehouse lawn in […]
ABC 7reports that an MPD officer faces serious charges Wednesday night, as prosecutors believe he attacked and threatened to kill his longtime girlfriend. Disturbing accusations arose as 52-year-old D.C. Police Officer Calvin Willis is accused of attacking his 25-year-old girlfriend. The documents say he has two children with her and that she is pregnant with […]